What is Sexual Assault ?

Sexual contact without a person’s consent. It covers a range of acts from unwanted touching and fondling to attempted and completed rape. What
these acts have in common is a lack of consent.

Occurs when a person is unable to consent; when he or she is forced, threatened, intimidated or physically or mentally incapacitated. Alcohol or drug intoxication can produce such a state of incapacitation.

Rape is sexual intercourse without a person’s consent. It includes vaginal, anal or oral penetration with either a body part or an object.

Sexual assault is a crime. It is a crime of power, not lust, and it is intended to hurt, control, and humiliate another person.

Sexual assault is most often perpetrated by someone known to the victim—an acquaintance, friend, date, classmate, coworker, or intimate partner. About 90% of sexual assaults on college students are committed by someone the victim knows.¹

Is it Sexual Assault if...?

People respond to an assault in different ways. Just because you didn’t resist physically doesn’t mean it wasn’t sexual assault — in fact, many victims make the good judgment that physical resistance would cause the attacker to become more violent.

Alcohol and drugs are not an excuse – or an alibi. The key question is: did you consent or not? Regardless of whether you were drunk or sober, if the act was nonconsensual, it is sexual assault. If you were so drunk or drugged that you passed out and were unable to consent, it was sexual assault. Both people must be conscious and willing participants.

Just because you don’t remember being assaulted doesn’t necessarily mean it didn’t happen and that it wasn’t sexual assault. Memory loss can result from the ingestion of “rape drugs” and from excessive alcohol consumption. If you have reason to believe that sexual activity occurred without your consent, contact a member of the SVRT.

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Also, you can add as much content as you want in one subtab area, but beware that the box will stretch, and that can create a lot of white space to either side,
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And last, but not least, always contact one of the web services members for assistance in creating new tabs. Because we use static HTML as our template for now,
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